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Encrypt your data

30 January, 2014


Sending data over the Internet is not safe. A safe connections takes effort and resources.
If you manage to get your mail send via encryption, you forgot the National Security Agencies (in short NSA) that have access to the mail servers and scan your data before its gets send encrypted over the Internet. Move your data up to an online storage leaves them in a container that is not yours alone.

But if you encrypt and decrypt data on your computer first with a strong 256bit encryption key, you can leave any security agency in the dark.
These Windows Powershell script functions makes it easy to encrypt and decrypt your files.
Since it is a symmetrical cipher, the same password is used for encryption and decryption.
If you need to pass your large secure data to another receiver, pass on the script with the new secret password and sentences using an unsymmetrical cipher or an alternative transport (mail / USB stick). The reward is a secure data transmission.

For example encrypt a file with the script:

Encrypt-File "C:\data\mydata.zip"

Send this encrypted file to an online storage or send via mail.
Receive the file and decrypt with the same script password:

Decrypt-File "C:\download\mydata.zip"


If you intent to encrypt/decrypt pictures, you can use the script plugins in cPicture.

Download

Encrypt-Decrypt Script
(remove the trailing .txt from the file once it is downloaded)

Note

Change the secret phrases and password in the script.
Select the script function you want to use at the bottom of the script or add the script to an existing upload/download process.